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  • Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
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  • World Industry News
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  • Exploration & Discoveries
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  • Drilling & Completion
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  • Development & Production
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  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Geosciences
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  • Health Safety & Environment
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  • Company News
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  • Industry Events
    •   Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
    Strengthening US dollar sends oil price down
    (3/9/2010) The change from yesterday was not great, but the US dollar increasing in value against the euro and other international currencies was enough to trigger selloffs at both the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London, especially as traders prepare for another round of unexpected change in the previous week's crude inventories and refined products...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (3/8/2010) $167 billion to be spent on deepwater in 2010-14
    (3/8/2010) Upstream merger & acquisition values up 40% in 2009
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (3/10/2010) Petrobras chalks up another pre-salt find in Santos Basin
    (3/10/2010) Wildcat spudded in Kansas McCracken Project
    (3/10/2010) New Standard proceeding with Goldwyer Shale project
    (3/9/2010) Kentucky USA Energy at TD in Hardison-1
    (3/9/2010) Jupiter's Kazakhsan J-50 confirms Jurassic-XI hydrocarbons
    (3/9/2010) Kea prepping to drill Taranaki deep gas test well
    (3/9/2010) Krescent at TD in Texas Hercules Prospect probe
    (3/9/2010) Egypt's Al-Amir SE-5 major oil & gas producer
    (3/9/2010) Kalegran strikes oil in Iraqi Kurdistan Akri Bijeel Block
    (3/9/2010) US Gulf Ship Shoal well a success at 10.4 million cf/d
    (3/8/2010) Exoma spots extensive CSG plays in Queensland basin
    (3/8/2010) Allied kicks off 1st horizontal well in Texas' Giddings Field area
    (3/8/2010) New discoveries made on Colombia's Quifa Block
    (3/8/2010) Tharwa strikes oil with Egypt Eastern Desert exploration well
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (3/9/2010) Friendly sets up its own drilling subsidiary
    (3/9/2010) Talisman gets okay to drill with Transocean Winner
    (3/8/2010) Anadarko signs over Ocean Monarch to Cobalt
    (3/8/2010) CPTDC does $143 million rig deal with Iran
    (3/8/2010) Songa Mercur set for Sakhalin work under Gazflot
    (3/8/2010) Newbuild Transocean drillship starts 5-year stint with Reliance
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (3/10/2010) Oilsands Quest considering SAGD tech for Axe Lake project
    (3/10/2010) Golden State pushing Paradox Basin-3 toward TD
    (3/10/2010) VAALCO lines up Sapphire Driller for 4 Gabon wells
    (3/10/2010) Ascent brings Peneszlek area Nyirseg wells onstream
    (3/10/2010) Exterra starts development of its Barnett Shale assets
    (3/9/2010) Woollybutt back on production with its revitalized FPSO
    (3/9/2010) Cameroon's Logbaba well completed for high gas flow
    (3/9/2010) Probe producing gas at an East Cameron well, water at another
    (3/9/2010) $6 billion Chirag Oil Project added at Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli
    (3/8/2010) Phase 1 of UK North Sea Don fields completed
    (3/8/2010) JayHawk drilling producers on North Dakota field
      Licensing & Concessions
    (3/10/2010) Strike unable to agree to terms quits Philippine farm-in
    (3/10/2010) GeoPark re-jigs participations in Chilean blocks
    (3/10/2010) Tullow to sell stakes in Namibia gasfield concession
    (3/10/2010) Socar & RWE to explore Caspian Sea's Nakhicheva
    (3/9/2010) CNOOC-led consortium granted Iraq's Maysan field complex
    (3/9/2010) Leni divesting its holdings in Zala Gas & PetroHungaria
    (3/9/2010) Statoil & Chevron pre-empt Devon sale of US Gulf St Malo stake
    (3/9/2010) Sea Dragon links with Tanmia for Egypt projects
    (3/8/2010) TG World relinquishes stake in Alaska's Sak River-1A well
    (3/8/2010) Pacific Asia amends Oyo Field stake purchase
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (3/10/2010) Spectrum enhances 3D depth imaging technology
    (3/10/2010) ParaFin reprocessing 3D survey in Paraguay
    (3/10/2010) Buried array seismic monitoring system installed on Sanish Field
    (3/10/2010) TGS continues expansion of Indonesia 2D acquisition
    (3/9/2010) Talisman pegs $16 million for 2 Peru seismic shoots this year
    (3/9/2010) New Zealand's Reinga Basin 2D shows high prospectivity
    (3/8/2010) Land system reaches 80,000-channel milestone
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (3/9/2010) Shell contracts Technip & Samsung for floating LNG project
    (3/8/2010) Total shutting down Dunkirk refinery, joining Dunkirk LNG
    (3/8/2010) Gas input for Petronas LNG's Tiga plant contracted
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (3/9/2010) Niger Delta Atlantic still polluted by December oil spill
    (3/9/2010) Woodside says Pluto LNG workers not exposted to asbestos
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (3/10/2010) Sakhneftegaz Engineering scores Sakhalin-1 topsides project
    (3/10/2010) WesternGeco absorbing Nexus Geosciences
    (3/10/2010) PetroBakken acquiring Rondo Petroleum
    (3/10/2010) ABS to review Chevron's Big Foot ETLP
    (3/9/2010) PCS picks up Aramco 3-year casing & tubing contract
    (3/8/2010) FMC to provide Norwegian Sea Marulk Field subsea equipment
    (3/8/2010) Rheochem now holds 100% of Zeus Petroleum
    (3/8/2010) AlMansoori & Key Energy in Mideast services JV
    (3/8/2010) Helix divesting all of its oil and gas business
    (3/8/2010) Shell-PetroChina JV offers $3 billion for Arrow Energy
    (3/8/2010) Aker Solutions wins 2 Petrobras FPSO contracts
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    March 16-18
    Offshore West Africa Conference & Exhibition, Luanda, Angola
    March 16-18
    Turkish International Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
    March 16-18
    Oil & Gas Africa Exhibition & Conference, Cape Town, South Africa
    March 16-18
    Gas Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    March 21
    GPA Annual Convention, Austin, Texas USA
    March 21-25
    Howard Weil Energy Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    March 22-23
    LNG 2010, London, UK
    March 22-24
    CHC Safety & Quality Summit 2010, Vancouver, BC Canada
    March 22-24
    CIPPE 2010 China Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology & Equipment Exhibition, Beijing, China
    March 22-24
    Latin Oil Week & Latin Upstream 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    March 23-24
    International Deepwater Drilling Conference & Exhibition with/ IADC Drilling HSE Asia-Pacific Conference & Exhibition, Singapore, Singapore
    March 24-26
    2010 Australasian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Perth, WA, Australia
    March 29-31
    Coal Seam Gas 2010, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    April 5-8
    St Petersburg 2010 EAGE, St Petersburg, Russia
    April 6-8
    North Caspian Regional Oil, Gas, & Infrastructure Exhibition, Atyrau, Kazakhstan
    April 11
    SPE EOR Conference/Oil & Gas West Asia, Muscat, Oman
    April 11
    SPE EOR Conference/Oil & Gas West Asia, Muscat, Oman
    April 12
    SPE International Conference on HSE in Oil & Gas Exploratio & Production, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    April 13
    IADC Well Control Europe Conference & Exhibition, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
    April 18-21
    LNG 16 International Conference & Exhibition, Oran, Algeria
    ...More Events

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